General impression, lizard, scorpion, black spider should be grown in tropical rainforest or desert animal. In Chengdu, there are a group of young people who raise reptiles with different shapes as domestic pets, and use pictures and films to post the growth and predation process of reptiles to the internet. Wu Xiaokang is one of these alternative players. Today, the 23 year old Wing Chun master boxer Wu Xiaokang will go to Shanghai to attend the 2009 World Cup Asian qualifiers jujitsu occupation player, he is most worried about, is the home of a pile of reptiles.
The top 40 reptile and his companion
Wu Xiaokang kept 5 lizards, 16 spiders and nearly 40 reptiles. Although psychologically prepared, but when the reporter went into Wu Xiaokang that is not spacious housing, or by the house full of reptiles "scared" a jump. Wu Xiaokang lives on the first floor, in the room on the side of the house, where he and the reptiles live.
Speaking of the house of Israel, killing Scolopendra subspinipes (Deathstalker scorpion) and other rare species, Wu Xiaokang familiar. But the most precious, or a bearded dragon australia. Australia is the bearded dragon he spent 280 yuan from the Chongqing mail order, the skin is yellow, rough, back and neck covered with spiny scales. The reporter saw some fear, he explained that Australia Australia desert and bearded dragon originating from the dry forest, is the species most gentle lizards, do not bite. "I gave it the name 'fat man' because it was very edible." Wu Xiaokang said, just bought back, "fat man" is less than 10 centimeters long, now the body shape has been nearly 40 centimeters, the maximum length to seventy or eighty cm. "Fat man" has a lot of character." Then, he started stroking the lower bearded dragon ears, bearded dragon actually immediately close your eyes, let Wu Xiaokang do it a bulging belly. "When it's in a good mood, you can do that.". If it gets angry, the skin turns brown, then opens its mouth, expands its barbed throat, or expresses its displeasure by a hunger strike."
Insect raising experience, temperature and humidity are indispensable
"Hang up?"" Wu Xiaokang fingered the reptile in the glass box with a straw and then pressed the scorpion's back, but found it was no longer moving. "Black rough" is a black and thick tail scorpion of South Africa, worth about 1000 yuan. Once a person is it stung, will be killed on the spot." Wu Xiaokang said, "scorpion is the most vigilant crawler, so touch it with a straw, it does not respond, it proved dead.".
"A few days ago, my Chinese red dragon, centipede, also died 4, and later found that it was dry dead.". The cold weather in winter, I use the heating pad for their glass room warming up, but a business trip, the basin did not add water, they will suffer." With a small tweezers, Wu Xiaokang carefully picked up some gray black particles, and then patiently adjusted the lighting intensity of the glass room. Keeping reptiles is easy to keep and difficult to keep. Reptiles do not get used to land, so they have to use incandescent lamps to keep them constant. On the other hand, proper humidity is essential to help their skin breathe. So want to keep good reptiles, temperature and humidity are indispensable."
Every man has his father"
Wu Xiaokang is a master of Wing Chun, taekwondo and other skills, engaged in boxing coach for 6 years, a crawler is his hobby. He told reporters that after his father retired, he became one of his "Friends of climbing". "These reptiles' houses were made by my father and myself, and in order to better simulate the growth of reptiles, the house of centipede and spider deliberately added the wallpaper of the bark.". There are not many people keeping reptiles in Chengdu, so I have built a web site of "reptile family" with several enthusiasts on the coast, and regularly upload photos of their pets, so that more people can understand the reptiles."
Wu Xiaokang said: "reptiles are purely personal hobbies, low-key point like.". I won't take it out. It's not only frightening, but bad for pets. Because people who really like reptiles know that reptiles, like pets in general, are emotional. When they are strange, they instinctively resist, but if you are really kind to them, it can be perceived." Trainee reporter Chen Ying photography Yang Tao